There are a lot of things I hate about the Bible as an atheist, but one thing I really wish would be implemented is a double measured punishment for positions of authority. Every crime a police officer is found guilty of should be doubled, every time and without exception. They should always be aware of the fact that if they screw up it will be a much bigger deal for them.
There's a lot of fucking sense in the bible sometimes, in a lot of cases the problem is it's good fucking sense for a tribe of nomadic folk 2500 years ago and then it's been filtered through various cults rewriting and reinterpreting it to suit their needs and viewpoints in the intervening time. The US constitution seems to be on the same sort of track.
Too bad we're headed in the exact opposite direction...
Conservatives like my father are being brainwashed to believe the cops have TOO MANY restrictions to "properly do their jobs."
They literally want LESS accountability for police... It's absolutely absurd and because of that I'm pretty sure that's what we'll end up with. We don't get to have nice things in this timeline.
How is it that a soldier sent into literal combat against people he knows are armed and intend to kill them has to be more careful not to shoot someone than a police officer responding to a call about a black person using the sidewalk?
Nah. They need the wall. They fought basic accountability too hard, clearly its not gonna happen. Accept that and move on to a more realistic solution.
I hope Mr. Riley is found not guilty. And that all three officers who participated in this dangerous fraud are charged and punished appropriately. Mr. Riley deserves compensation for harm done. Tallahassee, you can do better. smh.
Don’t worry. Internal affairs with complete an investigation and find that the officers not only did nothing wrong but are being commended and recommended for promotion!
How about we compromise. No punishment for the officers, and Mr Riley gets 12 months in jail, but he gets out 3 months early if he admits he was wrong and promised not to sue.
I hope for justice, and equality under the law. Are we there? No. And my activism focuses on what we need, deserve, and want. Why do you not? Do you advocate apathy? Do you have another suggestion?
When you know there will be no consequences, it's easier to be blatant with your corruption. The officer should be fired, arrested for falsifying official documents, and the chief of police should be fired.
Cops: " THE PUBLIC IS SO HOSTILE TO US, WE CANT COMPREHEND WHY THEY HATE US NOBLE SAVIORS OF JUSTICE SO MUCH!"
Also Cops:" I'll just casually destroy this persons property and frame them for a crime to fill my quota, and maybe..if he gets upset over it, I'll have an excuse to murder him! teehee! "
6 months paid vacation and a transfer to a different district where she commence committing more crimes. Same strategy as the church has with pedophiles. Wonder why this is so rampant when the punishment is a reward.
Man, I hate this. I haven't checked the articles, but you just know guilty cop isn't named anywhere while the innocent driver has his name plastered everywhere.
It's great that people here are at least naming these terrible people.
Lol Tallahassee PD is going full "shoot the messenger and the messenger's dog" about this. Blithering on about how releasing the video is wrong and now the dude they tried to frame can't get a fair trial because people saw the video, which they were totally gonna show after the trial (trust me, bro. bro you gotta trust me. we can't have people knowing what happened until after he's found guilty and we get to take a bunch of his money by force.) but now everyone is gonna be prejudiced in favor of the defendant which violates his rights and that part of the video where she clearly opens a sealed container, dumps it out, throws it back into the car and then arrests him for open container was taken out of context.
After I saw that one of the officer palming a baggy and acting like they found it I thought: how could I possibly protect myself when they're running a search like this? Scary shit.
99% of people charged with DWI, plead guilty or may settle down for a lesser charge. Fighting a case like that is a lot of money ($5k-$10k), your average citizen probably doesn't have a emergency fund. It's horrible, and not only that, the cop who charges the person with a DWI gets a nice bonus at the end of the year. You can't assure yourself that you'll be in the clear if you're sober; they might have insiders who mess around with your test results and make it look like you had alcohol/drugs in your system.
That's what the police think surveillance video is for, at least. When they're done assaulting innocent old women with dementia they sit around with their buddies, watch the video and laugh and laugh. I assumed that when the officer said "wait for the pop" he was talking about the audible sound of him breaking this 73 year old dementia patient's arm over $13 in goods from Walmart, but the way they're gathered around the screen celebrating the assault, maybe he did mean popcorn.
body cams are for police highlight reels and for taking clips of their murders home to masturbate furiously too. Not for the public good, or justice.
Which is why it often takes years to weasel the fucking video out of their hands when it shows them doing wrong (and yet the videos are almost always immediately released when they think they are in the right..), like with that abduction victim teenage girl a few years ago who the police blasted the fuck out, from behind, despite her following all instructions.
"By showing the video where our corrupt officer destroyed property and framed a man, you have ruined our attempt to imprison an innocent man who didnt deserve it.
How dare you, public, for foisting this terrible injustice upon all of law enforcement!"
Law enforcement should be held to a higher standard, and this kind of violation of trust and abuse of power deserves far more than just the punishment for a DUI. The DUI punishment should be stacked on top of whatever she can be charged with for this act itself: false arrest, filing false reports, falsifying evidence, etc. And there should be no allowance for serving those sentences concurrently.
I'll settle for her being fired and charged with making up evidence. Let her name be entered into a national + open database of people whose words are worthless.
I'm more interested in the taxpayers compensating Riley for as much as possible, and maybe asking for higher quality police officers who can do their jobs. You know, the fiscally responsible path....
Double the sentence she tried to frame him for in addition to the max for any and all other crimes she may have committed, and knowingly arresting someone based on false evidence needs to be charged federally as kidnapping because that's what it is.
Honestly, why they don't constantly run but have button as a marker for "I have to take a bathroom break" and not review that footage unless something happened that requires review during that time period is beyond me.
If the camera is off they are no longer a cop until it is back on. That needs to be the rule. Then if they cannot provide footage a lot of civil lawsuits will be able to get past QI bullshit at least.
It's almost certainly complacency on her part. She's probably done this an innumerable amount of times. At first I'm sure she was very careful in covering her tracks. She's just gotten away with it so many times now that she stopped caring about whether or not it was easy to catch her in the act. Probably figured there was very little chance anyone would see the footage. ACAB
I want to live out the balance of my life solely fueled by the flesh of these despicable subhumans. Maybe get them into some factory farming conditions? I prefer my badge-pig walnut finished unless a longer more painful option is available. It's not that i don't like them...😉
No. Pbts aren't even evidence as they're a presumptive test. They do not need to offer not do you need to submit to anyone but the intoxilyzer at the station or a blood draw from a qualified phlebotomist. Anything outside of those two things is presumptive and is not evidence only the testimony from it is supporting first party evidence and yes that including fst's like the walk and turn or hgn.
It should be noted that refusal of a breathalyzer in the US has consequences that depend on the state. Refusal will get you an automatic six month license suspension and $500 fine in many.